Contact paper is about a 10 minute hack solution. You need to develop a realistic overall plan that will touch and replace every single thing in your bathroom. The most expensive part will be the shower and floor. To do that properly, and waterproof it properly, and do the plumbing behind the wall properly, and to do the demolition without damaging anything else, you’d be looking at 10-14K. It’s yhe most expensive portion of the average 20K bath remodel.

http://www.remodeling.hw.net/cost-vs-value/2018/

Yep...Sophie's on it. The expensive part is the "behind the scenes" stuff. Demolition and hauling can be saved if you DIY that side of things. You can demo the space to save a $1K (includes hauling and dumping fees).

You can then mow that $1K back into the price of a new counter top....one that will handle HUGE amounts of water and humidity. Bathroom counters are under MUCH MORE stress than kitchen counters. They see FAR MORE splashing and they see far more HUMIDITY (100% humidity every time you shower) than kitchens. Kitchens see "regular" humidity (30%). That's why these types of counters will go for 15+ years. In a bathroom, I would give the contact paper 3 years or less. Humidity KILLS! And bathrooms are KNOWN for their HIGH HIGH HIGH humidity.

The average price for a bathroom renovation = $30K. They can be done for $8K (no tiling done; no change of shower presentation). They can also be done for $100K (200sf 6 piece master bath in a $2M home).

You are looking at change of shower presentation and tiling. I think you should be looking at $15K - $20K depending on your location. Saving the vanity + cheap counter top refresh will save you $500 - $1000. That's it.

we were able to do a master bath remodel about a similar size to yours, with a frameless shower

1) pull shower

2) relocate shower head higher

3) bump out shower about 6 inches

4) shower tile to ceiling and floor (old shower had a plastic floor)

5) floor tile in rest of bathroom

6) fixtures (shower, tub, two sinks)

7) new toilet

8) remove wall paper

9) paint

for about 11K

It took about 3-4 weeks to complete

We didnt touch tub, vanity or counters.

In our new house we are planning a full gut of the bathroom, a little bigger than the last one, and bids are coming in around 38K.

Budgets are highly dependent on location. In a city it may cost 50k to do a comparative job in a small town for 30k.

I've found the opposite in materials cost. Price a toilet in a Manhattan or San Fransisco store then compare it to a mid-sized town. I've lived in a very large town and it's just less expensive in a small to mid-sized town.

Several years ago I gutted and remodeled our master bath. The cost of the materials was $18,000. I did all the labor.

I live in a small town pop <100,000 and there are multiple places to buy tile and toilets.

And in Canada, MOST of our "towns" are LESS than 100,000 residence. We have very few million+ cities. It's just the way it is. Small to me is 1500 or less. Hamlets or villages come in this size range.

The usual cut of I've heard is <100,000 small town, 100,000-1,000,000 large town, 1,000,000 - 3,000,000 city, >3,000,000 big city. I would call <1,000 rural or a crossroads.

The area I've spent most of my life is 3-5 million so <100,000 is small but does have basic shopping and we have local hardware stores with excellent service. I don't know if there's a HomeDepot here because I never shop there.

Lyndee - small town living is different, there are pros and cons to each. No, USPS, FedEx, UPS don't charge extra to deliver. I ordered online in the big city too and don't find it inconvenient. As for medical care, I have friends in the big city that have a difficult time finding physicians. There are good things about small towns, such a no traffic jambs, seeing wildlife, not hearing my neighbors, having space between houses.

I'm finding these difference interesting so I researched the definitions:

Village - A village consists of a group of houses, together with other buildings such as a church and
a school, in a country area

Town -a thickly populated area, usually smaller than a city and larger than a village, having fixed boundaries and certain local powers of government with private and public buildings.

City - an incorporated municipality, usually governed by a mayor and a board of aldermen or councilmen, include control of basic and essential infrastructure networks (utilities).

By that definition my area of 50,000 - 80,000 is a town, not a city by lacking utility control. But the town and city definition overlap with both having local governments.

To answer the OP, the cost of a remodel is dependent on your local cost of living so it's very difficult to ballpark you reno without that information.

I am interested in this “small town” talk. I live in what I consider to be a small town: 7,000 residents. (The highlight of our economy was the arrival of a McDonalds ten years ago!) We consider 50,000 to be a metropolis.

We have one locally owned hardware store and two small lumberyards. They can order what we need or we can drive to Kansas City, about 1.25 hours away. Or order on line.

We remodeled a very small bathroom several years ago. All new fixtures, everything down to the studs. Under $10k.

Lyndee - just to get an understanding of your point of view, have you ever lived in >1,000,000 population city?

From what I've read it can be more difficult to move from small population to large. Having moved from a large population to small there was some "getting used" to it but not a big deal.